I’ve been himming and hawing about whether I should write this post or not - the last time I opened my mouth to stand up for girl bloggers (choosing of categories for the las Irish Blog Awards) I was shouted down quite vociferously!

But I think I can get away with this one…. K8 recently awarded me a “Rockin’ Girl Blogger” award!

It’s a meme that’s been doing the rounds and when you receive the award then you get to award it to the best girl bloggers of your choice. As K8 describes it:

It’s a sort of… pass the pink idea, sort of like a little dig of appreciation to your fellow girlie bloggers.

With that in mind, I took a run through my blogroll to see who I should award one to and the results are in. Being typically me, I didn’t stick to just 5 girlies, as I had 6 very deserving people that I couldn’t choose between…

Grannymar - how could I not? The woman who barely knew anything about blogging a year ago now has her own domain and is entertaining people with her wisdom and wit day after day…

Beaut.ie - the girls only came onto the scene late last year but they’ve revolutionised beauty blogging in Ireland and thoroughly deserve ‘yet another’ award!

Red Mum - Mother, Photographer and great drinking buddie, her column paints a true picture of life with a teenager while her photos display the many facets of Dublin life.

The Humble Housewife / Frugal Tiger - Deborah dispenses both delicious recipes and thoughtful money saving tips - an essential in today’s costly Ireland.

Maman Poulet - Recently moved to a nice spanky clean new home, the pilot of the mothership casts her acid tongue over Irish politics and anything else that catches her fancy.

Mary Gilmartin - The ultimate girl geek, the languages that she knows certainly aren’t the worldly ones that you and I speak! Follow her path to learning Japanese and other tidbits that cross her path over at her ‘Crossing the Net as I Work’ blog.

Hopefully you’ve all been following the girls over on beaut.ie as they were sending themselves and those closest to them for colonic hydrotherapy and reporting back on this mysterious procedure. I happened to mention to them that I had been thinking about going for a colonic or three and they kindly offered me a session that had been donated to them.

I’ve written a post which they’ve put up today, a no-holds barred ‘truth about colonics’ which you can read over here.

Thanks to a great tip-off from the wonderful girls over at beaut.ie, I ordered my free silver jewelry from www.silverjewelryclub.com - like the girls, I was a little skeptical at first, but Aphrodite did a good bit of research into the company in question and it was all above board - though it beats me as to how they are making any money off this!

Best explained by Aphrodite:

This is how it works. Four pieces of jewellery (it could be rings, earrings, bracelets, pendants, for men or teenagers etc) are displayed for 15 minutes or so. The stones are usually amethysts, garnets, periodots, citrines, topaz and the like - very nice. The clock ticks down and when they’ve had their 15 minutes of fame they’re replaced by other pieces. Click on the item you like and you’ll get lots more details about it - gemstone weight, value of the piece etc. Click on the Get This Free button and you’ll be taken to a page so that you can pay the $8.99 for postage. If you have a Paypal account you can pay this way, but if you don’t then it doesn’t matter. By clicking on the Paypal link you get an option to pay by credit card.

I ordered 7 pieces in my first couple of hours on the site! They are gorgeous looking and well photographed. 5 of my pieces arrived in the post today and they’re well worth the $8.99 shipping fee (even if it only cost the company $0.84 to send them!), even if the pendants are a little smaller than I expected - major kudos must be given to their photographer, he certainly knows his macro shots! But they will make perfect little stocking fillers.

One final thing to be wary of - choose your size carefully on the rings - one of the ones I ordered was a size 9, and I figured that I could always wear it as a thumb ring, but it’s swimming around even on that finger (I do have fairly skinny fingers), so I’ll have to see if it will fit any of my friends!

If you’re not patient enough to wait for the items to change every 15 mins, then you can go directly to their full catalogue at www.peora.com where you can purchase all of the silver jewelry items and many more things for low prices.

So what do you think of my choices?